I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
--Sigmund Freud from Civilization and Its Discontents (1931)
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
--Clarence B Kelland
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
--Mark Twain
